Hello,
I am doing a redesign of my Freenas as I have now a Cisco Nexus 5596UP with lots of 10GB ports now. There has been a lot of threads about LACP and laggs to Enterprise switches with feedback and some saying "dont do it". Its kinda of hard to follow whats the best practice as everyone's environment is unique. I have read the manuals and seen many You Tube videos with different opinions.
So I am sure I will get a few questions asked here and different opinions.
I have attached a PDF to illustrate the topology i wish to deploy.
Equipment:
ESXi Hosts
2 x ESXi 6.7 Hosts in VCenter 6.7 Cluster - No Spinning disks
Each ESXi Hosts - Dell R610 with 4 onboard 1GB Copper ports and 2 Port Intel X520-DA2
Switches
1 x Layer 3 Core Router - Routing for the entire network
1 x Cisco Nexus 5596UP - Layer 2 Only
Storage
Dell R710 with 4 onboard 1GB copper and 2 Port Intel X520-DA2 with Freenas 11.1 - Raidz2 - 24TB raw storage = 16TB of usable storage
Desired Topology:
VLANs
VLAN 99 = Management VLAN Untagged for each ESXi Hosts Port 1 ONLY on the Core Router.
VLAN 2-9 = Data, Voice, Wireless, etc will be untagged/tagged on the Core Router for networking of the VM traffic.
VLAN 10 = iSCSI VLAN only on the Cisco Nexus applied as a native VLAN on the LAGG connected to Freenas - Can this be done?
VLAN 20 = VMotion VLAN only on the Cisco Nexus
Core switch with 20GB LAGG to Cisco Nexus 5596UP = This is up and running with no issues.
Connections:
1. Connect Freenas to the Cisco Nexus with a 20GB LAGG on iSCSI VLAN 10 untagged/Native.
2. Connect the first 10GB port from each ESXi host to the Cisco Nexus on iSCSI VLAN 10 untagged/Native
3. Connect either a 1GB Copper port from each ESXi host to the Cisco Nexus on VMotion VLAN 20 untagged/Native
4. Connect a 1GB Copper port from each ESXi host to the Core Router Management VLAN 99 untagged/Native
5. Connect the second 10GB port from each ESXi host to the Core Router VLAN's 2-9 as the VM's will use VCenter distributed network switching either untagged/tagged.
Note: I forgot to include in the diagram the second 10GB port from the ESXi hosts for the VM traffic that should be terminated on the Core Router.
So my main question is if Freenas 11.x is capable and stable to use LACP 20GB LAGG to the Cisco Nexus?
Thanks,
I am doing a redesign of my Freenas as I have now a Cisco Nexus 5596UP with lots of 10GB ports now. There has been a lot of threads about LACP and laggs to Enterprise switches with feedback and some saying "dont do it". Its kinda of hard to follow whats the best practice as everyone's environment is unique. I have read the manuals and seen many You Tube videos with different opinions.
So I am sure I will get a few questions asked here and different opinions.
I have attached a PDF to illustrate the topology i wish to deploy.
Equipment:
ESXi Hosts
2 x ESXi 6.7 Hosts in VCenter 6.7 Cluster - No Spinning disks
Each ESXi Hosts - Dell R610 with 4 onboard 1GB Copper ports and 2 Port Intel X520-DA2
Switches
1 x Layer 3 Core Router - Routing for the entire network
1 x Cisco Nexus 5596UP - Layer 2 Only
Storage
Dell R710 with 4 onboard 1GB copper and 2 Port Intel X520-DA2 with Freenas 11.1 - Raidz2 - 24TB raw storage = 16TB of usable storage
Desired Topology:
VLANs
VLAN 99 = Management VLAN Untagged for each ESXi Hosts Port 1 ONLY on the Core Router.
VLAN 2-9 = Data, Voice, Wireless, etc will be untagged/tagged on the Core Router for networking of the VM traffic.
VLAN 10 = iSCSI VLAN only on the Cisco Nexus applied as a native VLAN on the LAGG connected to Freenas - Can this be done?
VLAN 20 = VMotion VLAN only on the Cisco Nexus
Core switch with 20GB LAGG to Cisco Nexus 5596UP = This is up and running with no issues.
Connections:
1. Connect Freenas to the Cisco Nexus with a 20GB LAGG on iSCSI VLAN 10 untagged/Native.
2. Connect the first 10GB port from each ESXi host to the Cisco Nexus on iSCSI VLAN 10 untagged/Native
3. Connect either a 1GB Copper port from each ESXi host to the Cisco Nexus on VMotion VLAN 20 untagged/Native
4. Connect a 1GB Copper port from each ESXi host to the Core Router Management VLAN 99 untagged/Native
5. Connect the second 10GB port from each ESXi host to the Core Router VLAN's 2-9 as the VM's will use VCenter distributed network switching either untagged/tagged.
Note: I forgot to include in the diagram the second 10GB port from the ESXi hosts for the VM traffic that should be terminated on the Core Router.
So my main question is if Freenas 11.x is capable and stable to use LACP 20GB LAGG to the Cisco Nexus?
Thanks,